MA Nursing | Part-time

Through active learning this module will enhance your leadership skills and to work effectively in a team.

This module aims to develop your research skills in the field of health and social care practice. It also enables you to systematically evaluate research outcomes from a variety of sources. The module:

• provides a critical knowledge base of the philosophical foundations of health and social research
• enables you to develop expertise in qualitative and quantitative data analysis
• enables you to carry out empirical and literature-based research

The dissertation module offers you an opportunity to explore in-depth an area of personal or professional interest that relates to your programme of study. In doing this, you will expand your research skills and apply what you have learnt in the earlier modules to your research project.

Aimed at those working as registered professionals in a relevant area of practice, this module will build your skills in advanced practice decision making. It will also raise your appreciation of the ethical and legal responsibilities involved in advanced practice decision making.

This module focuses on developing a critical understanding of congenital heart disease in adults, including its origins, presentation, and impact, and addresses specific care requirements. Topics covered include cardiovascular anatomy, pathophysiology, management, long-term effects, healthcare implications, patient perspectives, and ethical issues.

This is a Core module on the Critical Care route only. It is also available as an Option module on the Clinical route.

This programme has a practice assessment document that has a pass/fail element that will be part of the assessment component.

This module critically examines a range of key issues relating to violence and health from international, national and local perspectives. It demonstrates the need for an interdisciplinary public health approach when addressing the causes of violence, building prevention control strategies, and promoting safety. It enables you to understand and develop strategies to control violence.

This module enhances your knowledge and understanding of addiction as a public health issue and also its risk factors. It assesses different models of addiction e.g. drug addiction, alcohol addiction, gambling etc as well as its associations and mediators/moderators.

This module enhances your knowledge and understanding of addictions policy objectives, enabling you to critically assess the effectiveness of the interventions. It enables you to:

• identify core addiction policies and strategies from a UK and international perspective and assess how these are developed and put into operation
• examine how personal and structural forces impact on addiction and assess if these are related to policy objectives
• evaluate policies and interventions designed to improve addiction outcomes

This module focuses on putting your theoretical learning into practical use.

The aim of this module is to develop your understanding of dementia. It helps you to think creatively, identify innovations in care delivery, how these can be adapted and applied to the service planning and delivery within your own organisation.

The aim of this module is to enhance knowledge of palliative care practice, promoting high quality care for all those approaching the end of their lives, whatever their condition and whatever their setting.

The aim of this module is to enhance the management and implementation of safeguarding policies within a range of care settings and client groups.

Aimed at healthcare professionals, this module allows you to prescribe, safely, appropriately and cost-effectively as independent and/or supplementary prescribers, in accordance with both legal and the professional requirements of relevant professional bodies (NMC, HPC, RPSGB). It:

• gives you knowledge to address the specialist educational needs of nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals working within specialist areas and with specific client groups
• prepares you to exercise advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking and creative problem solving with regard to the unique challenges associated with medicines management among infants, children and young people, the elderly and other specific client groups

*Please Note: Students who wish to undertake V300 Independent and Supplementary Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP), as part of the PgDip Specialist Community Practitioner Children's Nursing programme, must have at least one year post registration experience. Students wishing to undertake this module must also be deemed competent by, and obtain permission and support from their employer. All students who wish to undertake V300 Non-Medical Prescribing will have to complete an additional 'North West Non-Medical Prescribing Application form' which will be approved by the prescribing programme team prior to commencement on the NMP programme.

This module is designed to enable registered health professionals from a wide range of settings to develop their approaches in advancing teaching learning and assessment in practice.

It will also help you to develop a critically reflective approach to your own development in the application of teaching and learning theory, and apply this to your own practice.

This module aims to critically explore the concept of the self within a mental health context. It is assessed via a referenced script or your journey of development and oral presentation to support this. The focus is on the different aspects of the self; the responsible self relates to society and culture, the development of self relates to the psychological and emotional aspects of self, the potential self relates to coaching, and the reasoned self ethical reasoning and decision-making. You will explore the self as personality, as a belief system, as a relational dynamic and therapeutic model to personal and professional practice - Peplau, Watson, Barker, Berne, and Heron. There will also be a focus on self-awareness as self-discovery and the use of self in the talking therapies encompassing critical reflection, emotional intelligence, self resilience, skills in relation to mindfulness, compassion-based approaches, advocacy and applying a right based approach.

This 30 credit module aims to develop a critical understanding of the historical and socio-cultural framework and perceptions of mental health illness. It is assessed via a poster presentation supported by a written critical analysis. The focus of the module is on the portrayal of mental illness through a variety of mediums. This includes the exploration of society's relationship with mental illness across time, the portrayal of mental illness through art, film, and media and the philosophical development of psychiatry and mental illness.

This module will help you to:

• develop a critical understanding of the underlying fundamental theory and principles of coaching within Health and Social Care
• demonstrate a critically reflexive approach to synthesising coaching theory and principles within the context of practice.